Inside a Siberian prison camp

“Remember – you are awaited at home,” reads a sign inside a high-security male prison camp close to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Prisoners at the camp are either reoffenders or those who have been convicted of very serious crimes. While they are there, they perform different kinds of work, from manufacturing furniture to producing bricks, sewing clothes and making mattresses.

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23 Apr 2013. Krasnoyarsk, Russia. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

The high-security camp is located on the outskirts of the village of Ariysk, not far from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

23 Apr 2013. Krasnoyarsk, United Kingdom. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

Prison officers walk across a yard inside the facility.

23 Apr 2013. Krasnoyarsk, United Kingdom. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

Inmates carry lengths of timber at the camp, where a number of wooden products are manufactured, from boxes to prefabricated houses.